I suppose it is natural, but when your team isn’t doing well (especially if you EXPECTED better) then you begin to look for bright spots, reasons for hope. For the Yankees in 2013, these are few and far between. Francisco Cervelli showed unexpected batting prowess until shelved (perhaps for the rest of the year) with (read full post)
Jun 182013
Jun 172013
No, I don’t mean I’m done writing the blog (though the past few weeks might suggest it) but rather that my team, the Yankees, may well be done for 2013. Odd to say with them 7 over .500 and only 3 out of first place (and tied for the 2nd wild card spot). Cool standings (read full post)
May 292013
Hah! I bet you thought it was another post about the decimated Yankees, who are still only a stone’s throw (1 game) out of first place. But no, this time it is the Marlins I am wondering about. As today dawns, Miami’s finest stand at 13-39, which is .250. This is a historically significant number, (read full post)
May 232013
Perhaps an odd title for a post, on a day that they were not scheduled to play. But hear me out. Baseball is never over till it’s over, but as I write this Toronto leads Baltimore 9-6 in the 8th inning, and Cleveland leads Boston 12-3 in the 6th inning. The Rays are idle so (read full post)
May 222013
FanGraphs has a new feature, and I am pretty excited about it. It is a combination depth chart/projection for every team and every player. It projects that the Yankees will win 88 games and the Red Sox 90, which seem reasonable given where they are now, I suppose. It has some basis in projected return (read full post)
May 132013
The amazing Yankees are still not scoring that much (4 runs last night, but only 3 in 3 of 4 previous games, all wins) but getting mostly pretty good pitching – solid starters and an excellent bullpen is the hallmark of a team that is 23-13, tops in the East and only 1/2 game off (read full post)
May 102013
First Place New York Yankees. Not exactly an unknown phrase, but one that I doubted we would hear this year. But the Red Sox have come down to earth, at least a bit (6 of 7 losses) and the Yankees are actually winning with their patchwork lineup (they won 2 of 3 in Colorado despite (read full post)
May 082013
So much for hitting being up this year. The Yankees visited Coors field and managed 4 singles while wasting a solid (GS 57) outing from Kuroda, falling to the Rockies 2-0. It was only the third lowest-scoring game of the night, as the A’s lost to the Indians 1-0 on an unearned run in 9 (read full post)
May 062013
I watched in dismay yesterday’s game between the A’s and the Yankees. Pettitte, who doesn’t have great stuff, at all, needs to be precise to be effective and he was anything but: he allowed only 4 hits, but 3 of them left the yard, and he threw 100 pitches in just 5 innings, only 57 (read full post)
May 012013
And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for! Here is the “official” chart of April report cards. I did one internal check: all starting pitchers “deserved” a record of 394.75-391.25 which is a near as such a calculation can come to .500. All relievers score at 591/2270 which scores at C. Only the hitters (read full post)